JOHNSON v. SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 20413.

84 So.2d 229 (1956)

Mrs. Augusta C. JOHNSON et al. v. SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Jackson, Baldwin J. Allen and John E. Jackson, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiffs and appellants.

George Piazza, New Orleans, Special Counsel for defendant and appellee, Sewerage & Water Bd. of New Orleans.


JANVIER, Judge.

At about 10:30 o'clock on the morning of January 28, 1949, Mrs. Augusta C. Johnson, wife of Albert A. Johnson, while walking on the sidewalk of Poydras Street, in New Orleans, stepped upon the metal cover of a plumbing appliance box which was embedded in the sidewalk and sustained physical injuries when the cover, which was defective, gave way and her right foot and the lower part of her right leg were precipitated into the hole.

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